Posted on 07/08/2021 11:20:38 AM PDT by Marchmain
ROME — One of the projects most dear to Pope Francis is having the first part of its fourth edition on Friday, before continuing in September.
The Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements will bring together activists from the most marginalized communities of society in the most visible example of the “popularism” the pontiff has proposed....
The Vatican office said the meeting is in response to “the invitation of Francis that the poor and organized communities do not become resigned and to become the protagonists of the change process.”
The World Meeting of Popular Movements – the first of which was held in the Vatican in 2014 – promotes popular movements and organizations coming together to fight “bravely but without arrogance, with determination but without violence, for human dignity, nature and social justice.”
Among those who will participate in the meeting is Gloria Morales, who arrived in the United States from Mexico as an illegal immigrant when she was 16. Now a U.S. citizen, she works with the PICO Network, a grassroots faith-based social justice network.
“Having the world-wide meeting of the popular movements, especially amidst the COVID-19 crisis, is very important, because it gives people the opportunity to come together, think about and come to conclusions regarding how different popular movements confronted the situation,” she told Crux over the phone on Wednesday. “As Pope Francis said, we either come out better or worse.”
She said she hopes that the outcome of the meeting will be a document on the rights to access to land, jobs and housing, which will be given to Pope Francis.
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Although critics have accused the “popularism” promoted by the World Meeting of Popular Movements as just a socialist version of populism, Morales said it’s not about socialism, but about doing things right.
(Excerpt) Read more at cruxnow.com ...
“mother earth” is an idol.
Want a better world?
Build a Judeo-Christian world.
San Francisco will be sending a group to perform a special street art ‘movement’ in the Vatican Square.
The Whores of Babylon won’t be able to attend due to travel restrictions.
The way to peace is not thru suicide and willful ignorance.
PS - Pope, our space alien buddies are doing a fine job of defending Mother Erf as is.
San Francisco will be sending a group to perform a special street art ‘movement’ in the Vatican Square.
The Whores of Babylon won’t be able to attend due to travel restrictions.
The way to peace is not thru suicide and willful ignorance.
PS - Pope, our space alien buddies are doing a fine job of defending Mother Erf as is.
They would let the Third World develop their own natural resources for their own benefit.
The Gospel does NOT preach COMMUNISM!
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